Puzzle

 ACROSS

  1 Stage after larva

  5 Measures in an old Tootsie Pop ad

 10 "The Winner Takes It All" band

 14 Bedroom poster figure, say

 15 Oscar of "The Last Jedi"

 16 Wood strip

 17 What you're standing on (see the middle 4 letters in this answer)

 19 Writer Vonnegut

 20 See 10-Down

 21 Defib expert

 23 Softball stat

 24 Heat shield?

 25 Shellfish sometimes swallowed whole

 27 Grammy winner ___ Lipa

 29 Red sauce ingredient (middle 3 letters)

 33 Unable to sit still

 35 Prime Video's company

 36 ___-chic

 37 Animal with a forked tongue

 38 Fight about the dishes, perhaps

 42 Catlike

 44 Black-and-white bear

 45 It connects the Atlantic and Pacific (middle 3 letters)

 49 Word before "bod" or "joke"

 50 Lagasse of New Orleans cuisine

 51 Adjust, as a radio

 53 Dashboard device: Abbr.

 54 Drag behind

 56 MeatZZa company

 59 Nothing ___ than perfect

 61 Complain loudly (middle 4 letters)

 63 Toledo's lake

 64 They're just not good

 65 Titillating

 66 "Oh, man!"

 67 Coped (with)

 68 Word in a shoppe name

DOWN



  1 Italian city with a famous tower

  2 Japanese wheat noodles

  3 Know-it-all?

  4 Suspect's story

  5 Wasn't straight with

  6 Brit's "Goodness me!"

  7 Vehicle on a ferry

  8 Comedian McKinnon

  9 Work the room

 10 With 20-Across, "It's a well-known fact!"

 11 Utters impulsively

 12 Wager over lager, say

 13 It's often formal at a wedding

 18 Eccentric

 22 Wager for lager, maybe?

 26 ___ Ana

 27 Bit of gel

 28 Game with Wild cards

 30 In a frenzy

 31 JennAir alternative

 32 Occupied

 34 Until now

 37 Weaved downhill on skis

 39 Refusing to accept something

 40 Vaccine-approving org.

 41 Grapefruit diet, e.g.

 43 Release

 44 Fruits that flavor some Japanese liqueurs

 45 Certain artificial limb

 46 Watt per volt

 47 Loch monster, familiarly

 48 "Raise your glasses ..."

 52 Dragster fuel, briefly

 55 Slight curl in long hair

 56 Small hollow

 57 Readable with a laser

 58 Scottish isle where a terrier originated

 60 Utters, informally

 62 Seoul-based Soul maker

Solution